Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 7 Episode 6, “Beyond the Wall”
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Super Timely Post on Beauty and the Beast
If the classic tale was really about beauty, it would have been totally different. Here’s why.
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Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 7 Episode 5, “Eastwatch”
Players in the Game of Thrones have started to realize that it’s possible to win AND die. So maybe it’s best not to go it alone.
Thinking Small About Alternate History
Are optimistic alternate histories blasphemy? And why do alternate histories have to be about world changing events, instead of say, condiment choices?
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How Dunkirk’s Shifting Timeframes Capture Our Hearts and Minds
The shifting timelines in Dunkirk make it the most intense war movie in decades — but they also have a philosophical point to make.
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Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 7 Episode 4, “The Spoils of War”
Certain death gets a lot of people to question their loyalty, but not everyone.
Why Are Alternate Histories So Negative?
The Overthinkers tackle HBO’s “Confederate” and the overwhelming negativity of alternate history stories.
Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 7 Episode 3, “The Queen’s Justice”
In this week’s Game of Thrones, sisters are ruling it for themselves.
Amazon’s “Patriot”: An Audience of One
What if a bleak, existentialist comic drama speaks to you and only you?
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Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 7 Episode 2, “Stormborn”
This week on Game of Thrones: Astonishingly character-grounded and non-pointless lovemaking, to remind us that we actually care.
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Think Tank: Why did Iron Fist suck?
It’s almost unanimous: Iron Fist was the weakest of Marvel’s four Netflix superhero shows. Now that the dust has settled, the question remains: what went wrong?
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One point that I think is relevant to make about The Man In The High Castle specifically is that the book was written… more
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Well actually, Brittany Spears meets an astronaut on Mars in Oops… I Did It Again. She doesn’t go to the moon… more
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If I recall, those have an interesting POV in that the overriding political theme is a celebration of working-class… more
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Thanks, bro!
You’re a real Benjen.
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I’m temporarily burying comments that show spoilers so that they don’t appear on the homepage. Click on the text… more
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So there’s been a weird bit of currency for this album all of a sudden in my popcultural awareness, for whatever… more
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L. Frank Baum to readers: “don’t overthink it.”
Along those lines, it’s far more common for creators to weigh… more
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But does it match up with Dark Side of the Moon?
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Nice episode but now I want you to do a TFT tie in episode analyzing the Todrick Hall & Pentatonix remaking… more
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You guys are right that I overplayed the analogy between universities and the citadel. The obviously deliberate… more
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